International: Big Raid

Five hundred U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps bombers roared
northward over Korea one day this week for the biggest bombing raid of
the two-year-old Korean war. Their payload was more than bombs: they
carried political explosives.

Without opposition from 200 MIGs spotted on nearby airfields, and
without loss of a single aircraft, the formations blasted five North
Korean power plants which supply not only 90% of all power for
Communist North Korea, but also power for Communist Manchuria. The
principal target was the great Suiho power project on the south bank of
the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which...